Didn't see a thread on the reboot but a teaser has been released..... Summit Entertainment has released the first Hellboy trailer for the upcoming reboot. The new adaptations boasts a screenplay co-written by Hellboy comics creator Mike Mignola, with The Descent filmmaker Neil Marshall at the helm. David Harbour(Stranger Things) steps into the lead role of the titular demon, with Ian McShanefilling the role of Hellboy’s adoptive father Trevor Bruttenholm, who also happens to be the founder of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. This new film also introduces Daniel Dae Kim as comics character Ben Daimio, with Milla Jovovich playing the antagonist Nimue, a medieval British sorceress who seeks to destroy humankind. Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro previously adapted the Hellboy comics into two feature films starring Ron Perlman and had hoped to complete his trilogy, but Mignola opted to reboot the property instead with a new R-rated vision. This looks…okay? It just doesn’t seem significantly different enough from the previous movies to make a different. I’m curious to hear what fans of the comic have to say since I’ve heard they felt that Del Toro’s movies lost the spirit of the books. But as someone who’s read a few Hellboy comics and likes the idea of the character more than the execution, this just seems like a direct-to-video spin on the franchise. The effects look cheaper, the action looks less exciting, the production design has less personality, and David Harbour doesn’t leave as much of an impression as Ron Perlman. I’ll still give the movie a shot, but so far nothing is making the reboot really stand out. Check out the Hellboy trailer below. The film also stars Sasha Lane, Brian Gleeson, Sophie Okonedo, Penelope Mitchell, and Allstair Petrie. Hellboy opens in theaters on April 12, 2019. http://collider.com/hellboy-trailer/#poster
I honestly wish they had finished the Del Toro and Ron Perlman planned trilogy. I like Perlman's Hellboy quite a bit and I think they are under-rated movies (perhaps a little ahead of their time from a comic-movie point of view?)
I'll probably check it out as well but the big push was they were rebooting this as a much darker and different version than Del Toro's. That trailer felt a lot like the Del Toro movies, Harbour seems like he's channeling Perlman as well.....
trailer doesn’t look impressive...this movie comes out 2 weeks before Avengers so it better make its money while it can as for me, I’m good on this one
Agreed, both of the Hellboy's are really fun movies. I imagine this will be fun too. Plus: Ian McShane (odds he calls someone a ********er? 14:1)
They should have avoided Captain Marvel / Avengers like the plague. Dunno what they were thinking there.
68 but he was hardly a spring chicken when they made the two Del Toro films.......plus Harbour just seems like he's mirroring a lot of what Perlman already did.....
The "Smoke on the Water" theme just doesn't seem to fit and only makes the trailer cheesy.... (or... more cheesy)
Thought the hell boy humor fell flat, the character did not connect, and that's a big part of this. We need to like him. However, thought the visuals and the remainder of the cast very good. Without a good main character this is going die,
